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EDF Asked to Lower Sizewell Nuclear Plant Output to Help Balance UK Grid
EDF Energy (EDF.PA) has been asked to temporarily reduce output at its Sizewell B nuclear plant in the east of England to help balance the grid and prevent blac…
Myanmar Orders Fast-Track Gas Engine Plants to Beat Blackouts
The government of Myanmar has ordered two fast-track power plants to try to put an end to large-scale blackouts.
Electricity Transmission
Nigerian National Grid Collapses, Leading to Blackouts Across the Country
The Nigerian national grid experienced its first collapse for 2020 on Thursday, 16 January, leading to blackouts across the country.
Energy Storage System
UWC Proposes Energy Solution for Blackouts
With the ongoing strain on South Africa’s electricity grid and the growing use of renewable energy to mitigate climate change, there is a clear need for reliab…
Electricity Transmission
Victorians Face Nervous Wait as Heatwave Strains Power Grid
Authorities will call on emergency reserves to prevent blackouts over three hours on Wednesday when an extreme heatwave hits, as the state's power grid faces it…
Diversify Power Sources to Avoid a Repeat of Blackouts
If states want to avoid costly electricity failures such as the blackouts that roiled California recently, they can improve their odds by diversifying power sou…
Power Construction
Tech Aims to Predict Problems on Power Lines Before Disaster
B. Don Russell wasn't thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before they cause equipment failures, blackout…
Microgrid
After PG&E Blackout, California Homeowners Shift to Solar and Batteries
The Northern California blackouts this month, coming after years of increasingly destructive wildfires, showed millions of people how fragile their power grid c…
PowerGrid Technology
Grid Inertia And Why It Matters in A Renewable World
A power network without inertia is one that is unstable, suffers from issues of power quality and is susceptible to blackouts. The primary mechanism for providi…
Africa Must Embrace New Technologies to Meet Rising Energy Needs
SA is facing the return of rolling power blackouts. Despite receiving a $4.9bn bailout, the largest in the country’s history, Eskom — SA’s national utility p…
Electricity Transmission
Venezuela has Lost About 1,200 Megawatts of Thermal Power After a Massive Blackout
The lights went out across much of Venezuela Monday, reviving fears of the blackouts that plunged the country into chaos a few months ago as the government once…
Distributed Generation
South Africa's Blackouts Demonstrate Need for Distributed Energy Resources
South Africa's 2019 elections are over and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) kept its majority, but by its smallest margins yet.

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